Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Partly to celebrate the looong-awaited remastered reissue of one of the greatest rap albums ever, Company Flow's Funcrusher Plus, this month's mixtape is a slightly-less-than-CD-size compendium showcasing the musical brilliance of the Definitive Jux label, firm favourite of rap backpackers everywhere and this blog alike.

i primarily made it for my friend D. Frith, who isn't really familiar with Jux as his main preferences musically are nosebleed drum'n'bass and similar associated styles, but he was curious to get a flavour of The Jux Sound. If you're already familiar with their stuff then it's just a good selection of amateurishly-crossfaded DJX classics to bump in the car.1

1 Full disclosure: i seem to have mislaid my copies of both DJXP3 and S.A Smash's Smashy Trashy. So the versions of "Homesickness" by Despot and Smash's "The Harvest" here are excerpted from other mixes by, respectively, DJ Big Wiz and DJ Shortrock.2 March just sort of went west, really.

They came for the palmists, but I wasn’t a palmist, so I did nothingThey came for the bungee jumpers, but I wasn’t a bungee jumper, so I did nothingThey came for the players’ agents, but I wasn’t a players’ agent, so I did nothingThey came for the Charles Manson fans, but I wasn’t a Charles Manson fan, so I did nothingThey came for the reflexologists, but I wasn’t a reflexologist, so I did nothingThey came for the camp TV chefs, but I wasn’t a camp TV chef, so I did nothingThey came for the Romos, I laughedThey came for the martial arts enthusiasts, but I wasn’t a martial arts enthusiast, so I did nothingThey came for Eamonn Holmes, and I think I’m right in saying I applaudedThey came for the fire-eaters, but I wasn’t a fire-eater, so I did nothingThey came for Dani Behr, I said she’s over there, behind the wardrobe

Glimmering and everything another skullYou said it was dangerousFound out the place where youre goingFollow me down the pathI take your hopes I promise you thisA dying cold world but goldShimmering gold

Come momma now tell me the storyOnly laughingAbout our gilded wastelandDevoured torn into piecesCome now we shineSmall things ever calling out your nameYou hear some other time unchained aliveA world undefined